Wednesday, May 31, 1967

New Approach To The ECU Issue

The new East Carolina University measure introduced by Sen. Henley of Cumberland County would essentially accomplish the same thing in the next few years that were envisioned under the initial ECU bill rejected by the Senate.

Sen. Henleys measure provides for establishment of regional universities of which East Carolina would be the first. While it does not appreciably change the function of East Carolina for the next five years,*-it recognizes the institutions university status and paves the way for its continued development.

Under the Henlt-y bill. East Carolina and other regional universities v.hich may be created between now and 1073 would not be authorized to offer doctorate degrees. In the ca>e of East Carolina, its officials have said eve?', if 'he institution were granted university status this year it would be several

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ReHector Raleigh Bureau

R.ALEIGH the state is ju.-t scratching the surface of its seafood industry potential, according to freshman Rep. Kelson Taylor of Carteret County.

Tayior wants . orth Carolina to develop a strong, vigorous promotion and market-

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tng campaign for its seafood products. What has been done so far by the department of Conservation and Development assignment of one setfood marketing specialist is bardly enough, Taylor thinks.

In comparison to the promotion of most agricultural pro-dticts, he says our seafood industry is sadly neglected. Of course, the commercial seafood industry is small in comparison with agricultural products but Taylor thinks this is all the more reason that fishermen and se-food processors be given a helping hand. Dependent Upon Fishing The fisherman farms the ocean in much the same way a farmer farm-* land, Taylor says, and he is dependent upon what he catches. Many coastal communities are almost entirely dependent upon fishing.

Because the state is woefully short of processing plants and seafood marketing facilities, the commercial fisherman is forced to sell h i s catch at dockside for what he can get, Tavlor says. Often this is extremely low pay for his labor.

When fish are in good supply, prices are low. But the fisherman has no bargaining power. He must sell because if he keeps his -atch it will spoil

In this respect, the commercial fisherman is at a disadvantage and has no organization or price support program to turn to.

We simply must give I them some relief, T a y 1 or says.

Marketing Proposed

The coastal DemocratTaylor .succeeded a Republ i c a n legislator Trom Carteret feids a stronger ma"kei i n g program for .North Carolina seafood is the ultimate answer.

He has introduced legislation a.sking $67,000 for a seafood marketing program in C(S:D's Commerce and Industry division. Such programs have been tremendously successful in states such as Florida. Texas, Virginia and Maryland, Taylor says. Without one in North Carolina, our fishermen are at an even greater disadvantage.

Taylor feels such a program should be directed at educating the housewife, the restaurants and the large food chains as to the superb quality and advantage of North Carolina seafood.

Also, he says, much needs to be done to find better ways of packaging and marketing seafood and in maintaining its quality. One Carteret County seafood firm is pioneering in this direction and supplies clams, shrimp and scallops to a large restaurant chain and a major soup company. Another of the few large seafood packing firms in North Carolina is offering a canned cooked crab claw, designed f o r cocktail serving. A Dare County fishing enterprise ships swordfish from the Gulfstream to New York and other Eastern markets at fancy prices.

Many Factors Involved A start has been made, but there are many difficult factors involved in seafood management, development and conservation of the resource.

The resource is a rich and plaintiful one, but competition is great. For example, Russian trawlers operate not far off the North Carolina coast with facilities aboard ship for cleaning and processing, t h e catch immediately. A factory ship accompanies a fleet of trawlers which may spend weeks in an offshore area. Some of the freighter - sized trawlers pull several longlin-es 15 to 20 miles in length. These are not nets, but ocean trot lines.

The Japanese fishing industry is just as advanced, Taj-lor says.

In comparison to several other nations, the U. S. com-merical fishing industry is an infant.

years before it could iniiiate a program to grant clorai degrees.

Tne Haniey bill provides for a five-year trial period for regional miiver,<ities in North Carolina, after which the Gene,ral A.-sembly will weigh a study and recommendations concerning the future role of regional universities in the sliates higher education system..

This offer,- a new approach to higher education in North Carolina. It does not take away from the Consolidated University with respect to doctoral programs, and at the same time it opens the way for development of other institutions to a greater extent than is now possible. It grants recognition to those which deserve university status and it sets up a transitional period which will see appreciable development and change in higher education in North Carolina.

It would be completely unrealistic to assume that East Carolina and other institutioms which may become regional universities would not in the future expect to offer doctoral programs as well a| those leading to the masters degree. It would be unrealistic to accept the status quo and say that North Carolina will have no need for such programs at its regional universities.

While we have re?er\*ations about the framework of the evaluation procedure outlined in the bill for 1972, the measure as a whole has great merit and deserves the consideration and support of the General Assembly.

It is much more than a so-called name change

bill.

It recognizes the university status of East Carolina and it provides the machinery for much needed development in an important area of higher education in this state during the next half decade.

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Science has made considerable progress lately in learning the languages of such birds as the crow and such beasties as the dolphin.

What it should set out to decipher next is the language of women. That would really do civilization a .avoi.

However, it is unlikely that sience will ever accomplish this feat. Women dont want anyone to solve their language.

It is the real secret of the legendary mystery of their sex.

There is a fundamental and inescapable difference in the employment of language by man and woman.

A man uses language to say whats on his mind. To a woman, this is incredibly native. She uses language to say what isnt on her mind.

Except when she loses her temper and thereby reveals herself inadvertently, a woman opens her mouth only to plead the 5th Amendment. Her conversation is a camouflage to protect herself and her motives.

Nothing about his wife puzzles a new husband more than her enigmatic use of language. The marriage really begins to succeed only when he begins dimly to perceive that she rarely says what she means

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS MOODS

We live in the most comfortable age humanity has known in its history, yet psychiatrists do a thriving business and frequently with people whose lives are burdened and blighted by despondency. Try as they will, these people appear to live under a cloud. Happiness is not for them, they say, as they wring their hands in agony. Yet if we ask these people what they are unhappy about, most of them cannot give a sen able answer. They are just unhappythats it.

And here, of course, is where the psychiatrist comes in. It is the plac'c, also, where the clergy of all faiths come in. There are certain circumstances in life, such as the loss of loved ones or the loss of fortune or the loss of health which cannot be passed over casually or with a smile. These troubles are real. But the burdens of most people who are what we call despondent are not realor at least not as real as these people think 'their burdens are.

Frequently a d e s p o n dent state of mind arises from some physical condition which needs to be corrected. Again, the brooding type of person who turns m o 1 e h i 11s into mountains is in for a 'bad experience of depression. Let us never forget the wise words of Abraham Lincoln, namely, that people are just about as happy in this life as they make up their minds to be.

Grief and sorrow are real. Despondency, depression, melancholy are unheahhy states of mind that need to be regarded as such and sympathetically treated.

and rarely means what she

says.

Once that happens he can usually manage to get along with her very well.

He knows that whei she asks him if he feels chilly she she really means, Go close the window, Dopey; Im cold. He knows that she asks, Do you care for any more meat what she really means is, Pass the platter, Buster; cant you see Im starving?

He knows that when she says, Its so nice out, shall we walk?. what she really means is. My feet have been hurting for hours so go call a taxi, Big Stupid.

Even a veteran husband, no (Continued On Page 5)

This Date-' 40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN May 31,1927 Edwin Swain To Sing Here On Saturday night, June 4, Edwin Swain, baritone, will sing at East Carolina Teachers College. This will be one Oi the outstanding exercises of the commencememt exercises. . . Mr. Swain is being presented by the college in honor of the alumnae, and all friends of the college are given a cordial and urgent invitation to attend... Mr. Swain is an artist of national repute and has a host of admirers in this | state. He is probably the most popular artist that has ever appeared at the Teachers College. . . .

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**lii the Interest of Peace, We Must, Help Hini Save FaceBut M hat a Face to Have to Save I'

By ART BUCHWALD

ihe inieiiectuai image

WASHINGTONIt has been widely reported that President Johnson is very concerned about his inability to get through to many of the countrys intellectuals.

Since the President wants to be loved by all the people, he has been asking members of his immediate administration family what he can do to get the intellectuals on his side. He even had a luncheon last week for 16 of his own House intellectuals to discuss the problem.

The luncheon was, of course, off the record, so an outsider can only use his own imagination as to what went on.

Now gentlemen, Ah called you all together today to break bread with me and discuss a very pressing problem. How can we get the blankety-blank intellectuals in this country to see mah side of things? Well, Mr. President, I think its more a question of image than nything else. May 1 speak frankly?

Not too frankly, son. Intellectuals just don't believe anyone from Texas can communicate with them. They look down on you as a country boy who is more at home driving around his ranch at 90 miles an hour than he is reading the collected poems of T. S. Eliot.

Tt was 85 miles an hour, and you know it.

That isn't the point, Mr. President. The point is we ve got to make you into an intellectuals will consider you one of them.

That's a hot one. How do

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College Finals To Be Held In New Auditorium

Commencement exercises of the Eastern Carolina Teachers College will be held in the new college auditorium, according to announcement made this morning. The new building has a seating capacity of over 2,000 and will adequately a c c o m-modate the large crcwd expected to attend the finals.

Local Rotarians Celebrate Final Payment Of Club Building W. O. Saunders of Elizabeth City, N. C. , distinguished newspaperman and magazine writer, was the principal, speaker at the regular meeting and celebraton of the Rotary Club of this city last night. He gave the Rotarians many things to think about in the way of present day developments, and urged them tc give fearless expr e s s i o n to the things vitally affecting human life today....The session of the club last night was one of the most important in its history as the members celebrated the paying of all debts in connection with the Rotary home, the only building of its kind *n the world. They didnt build a bonfire, note, and mor-gages accumulated during the six ypaJo in wliich the building was being paid for as recently proposed. They listened to a suggestion from Dr. C. J. Ellen and decided to file all of the papers away among the permanKiit records of the urbanization....

(diristian Science Monitor)

Help wanted advertisements are mirrors of current society. We find striking contrasts in them at this season when high schools and colleges release many thousands of young people for summer employment.

Urban families adverties for summer mothers hel[>-ers in a farm magazine. They offer every inducement. Good wages, of course; also television (sometimes colored) use of a car on a day off, promise of a job for a friend in the same neighborhood, no hard work. The liberality of their offers suggests that help is hard to get.

On the other hand, here is the Office of Economic Opportunity recruiting for vacation projects with appeals that state frankly that working and living conditions at the job are austere; pay minimal if any. The current edition of Volun-

The current edition of Voluntary HELP WANTED, the agency's publication, lists many such openings. The big inducement is the challenging nature of the work.

Last summer 500 young people filled the posts offered by VISTA Associates, the summer program of the domestic peace corps. This year VIST.A Associated expects to take four times that number for work in ghettos, mountain poverty pockets, migrant farmer colonies, Indian reservations, and such places.

In the same publication, local community action committees are advertising for volunteers in antipoverty programs. These agencies rarely pay salaries but the applications pour in.

[The vast number of students thus engaged leads us to think that the lazy Do-nothing-but-play summer vacations are going out of style. We think this is a big credit item on the tally of modern times.

you propose to do that. ' Well, I thought we might get Jim Bishop or William S. White to reveal what you like to read at night before you go to sleep.

For a start I thought we might say Plato, St. Thomas Aquinas, Shakespeare, T u 1 s-toy, Kafka, Camus and the poems of Allen Ginsbert. They'll never believe it, the President said. Mah daddy said you can fool soni of the intellectuals all of the time and all of the intellect u a 1 s some of the time, but can't fool all of the intellectuals all of the time.

Well. what aboi)t this. Mr. President? Suppose we an-jiounce that as a hobby you've taken up writing poetry. We could release a poem every so often tha you wrote in your spare time.

It's a bad idea, but who are we going to get to write the poeiU'? '

How about Robert Lowell? Forget it. 'What other bright ideas do you people have*

I was thinking, Mr. President. that you might invite Leonard Bernstein instead of Martha Raye down for your next party. The intellectuals think a lot of Leonard Bernstein.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

ATHENS Belying the surface calm here one month after the colonels coijp detat, Greece is starting down a difficult road that could make it one of the worlds trouble spots again.

Far from being over, as the colonels now claim, the Greek crisis is just beginning. Tht problem is one more familiar to Latin America than to Europe: once a military dictatorship is established, how can It be dismantled peacefully?

But this is not Latin America where military regimes linger harmlessly for years. This is the sensitive Eastern Mediterranean, where Western and Communist worlds meet and changes in the status quo are dangerous. Thus, the e^entl predicted to us by one knowledgeable Greek political figure, however remote, a r nevertheless frighteningly possible: I will see you again in three years when you are co vering your American Marines fighting in the civil war here. Considering the grave longterm problems the coup raises, it is difficult to justify it certainly not for tne avowed reason that it prevented a Communist takeover.

Even if the leftish C e n ter Union party had won tht aborted May 28 election (by no means certain), even if tht demagogic Andreas Papand-reou dominated the resulting government (even less certain), and even if PapandreoU continued his anti - American and anti - NATO campaign positions still less certain), none of this amounts to a clear Red threat. This is the private assessment of conservative politicians with impeccably anti-Communist credentials.

Indeed, talks with key figures in the military government give the impression that the coup was really directed against the corruption, bureaucratic inefficiency, and political confusion that l.^ve steadily worsened in Athens. Thus, the colonels are running a government of reform in w a y vastly more important than their silly prohibition against Greek schoolgirls wearing mini-skirts.

For a month in office, tht record is impressive: a badly needed purge of the Greek Orthodox Church hierarchy; sweeping reductions in runaway pork-barrel spending; a contract with Litto Industries, Inc., for development of Crete and the western Pelo* ponnese.

Moreover, the colonels art enjoying general pop nlarity among Greek citizens fed up with the parliamentary politicians. But that popularity may already have reached its peak. For there is a less pleasant side to the regime that Greeks will not gladly tolerate for long.

Restoration of freedom of speech or of the pres* (Athenss once - lively newspapers are today the most slavishly sycophantic publications west of Moscow) is not in sight. Some 2,500 suspected Communist activists will be detained indefinitely with out trial in the Aegean islands. Andeas Papandreou is destined fo a long prison term. Far more important, the colonels are building authoritarian control over local governing units.

They are digging in for a long stay, refusing to set a date for returning to constitutional government and envisioning a new constitution along authoritarian lines with the army controlling a tame parliament. And what guaran-(Continued On Page 5)

New Statistical Basis Appliec.

By ELMER ROESSNER

For some time now the U. S. Department of Labor has been issuing a statistical series on the net spendable earnings of factory workers.

In recent months it has been pointed out in this column that while the total dollars in earnings have been increasing, the actual spending power has been shrinking because *of the increase in taxes and the increase in comsiimer prices.

This sutuation was the basis for the protection that there would be a lot of labor unrest this year: that workers were aware of the fact that more dollars bought le.ss, and tlial there would be many strikes and tougher wage demands.

This forecast has already begun to come true.

More Bodies Brought In

Now the government has

changed the base for the report.

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The Department of Labor has announced a new serie:s estimating the average weekly spendable earnings for 44 million workers on private non-agricultural payrolls.

The new estimates, it says, provide a muc'h more inclusive measure of tlie hours and earnings of American workers than has been avail

able from earlier reports in this series which related to manufacturing production workers only. Include in the new series are production workers in mining and manufacturing, construction workers in contract construction, and non-supervisory workers in transportation and public utilities: wholesale and retail trade, finance, insurance, and real estate and services.

This broader base still shows that workers are getting less tlian they used to. For instance. the spendable average weekly earnings of a worker with three dependents in April, 1967 was $89.15 a week, compared with $87.53 a week in April. 1966. But in terms of 1957-59 dollars, the same worker gets only $77.32 a week, compared with $77.80 a year

ago.

Manufacturing Dips Further

In the manufacturing segment of the new series, an average worker with three dependents got $99.40 a week, compared with $98.57 a week a year ago.

3ut this paper gain vanishes ' when figures are adjusted to 1957-59 dollars. The family worker today gets $86.21 in real spending money, compared with $87.62 a year ago.

Tliis is the reason for re-pending the prediction: because American workers are aituallv getting less buying power today (and this new includes mining, construction, trade and financial workers as well as manufacturing workers), there will be strong demands for higher pay this year, great labor unrest and iiuuiy strikes.